T&T* Project Management System
for Technical Environments

*(T&T = Tried and True)


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1) Are you: 2) Is your job, career or company's future on-the-line for project success?
3) Have you been tasked with a low budget, short duration project?
4) Have you been chosen from a line organization to lead a "special" project?
5) Does you organization not have a "refined" PM culture, but does projects anyway?

If you had to answer "yes" to any of the above, then you dare not miss this session.
Project Management (PM) is one of the most dangerous jobs (career-wise) a person can take on. This danger is especially pronounced when you're responsible for a small, short duration, low-budget project and/or working in an organization that lacks a refined, PM culture. Under such conditions the lack of resources (time, money, tools, management understanding/support, etc.) prevent any real chance of recovery when something goes wrong -- and it always does.

Moreover, this failure risk seems to apply, in spades, for very small (micro) or academic-run, "special" and SBIR/STTR type projects. This makes perfect sense when generally none of those environments exhibit anything like a refined PM culture and are almost always conducted on shoe-string budgets over very short time periods where there is simply no margin for error, no room for recovery and no tools to adequately deal with the inevitable issues. This is no place for the untrained, the unskilled or the unprepared -- that is a tried and true recipe for failure (the perfect storm, if you will).

Come, get the understanding, tools, system knowledge and usurp the experience (skills) from a project management veteran who is also a professional speaker and consultant to hundreds of firms for their technical proposals and projects. The instructor has personally (not as a consultant) implemented PM cultures in three firms (two small and one Fortune 500) and participated in 100s of projects himself. Through all of this, he has learned to create a local, PM micro-culture that he can control, even when working in larger, company-wide PM cultures (something is always lacking). This controllable micro-culture (project management system) has saved the day on many occasions, but is something other PM teachers fail to impart -- this one is different. This often critical skill is one you should have in your tool kit whether you're the PM yourself, or your trying to improve performance across your organization.

This session is for engineers, researchers, managers and executives from organizations of all sizes.

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INSTRUCTOR: John Davis serves as the CEO and General Manager of JADE Research Corporation, He leads more than 20 PM relevant workshops every year and is widely recognized as a leading national authority on the subject of R&D projects and SBIR/STTR. Davis is currently writing a book on Project and Proposal Management in Multi-Dimensional Cultures and is a much-published author, a popular lecturer and an often invited speaker on Developing Federal Proposals and on R&D Project Planning & Management. Davis brings over thirty years of progressive, hands-on experience as a Research Engineer, Project Manager, Proposal Manager, Marketing Director, entrepreneur and C-level executive in leading technology firms.

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LOCATION: University of MD, College Park, MD
TIME: August 17, 2010, 8:30am-1:00pm
TUITION: $249 ($210 if registerd by 1 Feb. 2010)
(Special rate of $185.00 for MD SBDC/PTAP clients and affiliates of
the University of Maryland:)
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